In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else--and for two sisters coming of age, the city\'s passions blend in intoxicating ways.
High-spirited and rebellious, Chiaretta marries into a great aristocratic Venetian family and eventually becomes one of the most pow.
The two sisters were abandoned as babies on the steps of the Ospedale della Pietss, Venice\'s world-famous foundling hospital and musical academy.
Chiaretta and Maddalena are as different as night and day.
In glittering 18th-century Venice, music and love are prized above all else--and for two sisters coming of age, the city\'s passions blend in intoxicating ways